It’s been fabulous to gather together with roughly 15 of Latin America’s leading religion journalists — from Pope Francis’s Argentinian biographer to South America’s high-profile ...

Hindus (36) and people of other religions (39) fall in between. (We do not have sufficient data on the relatively small numbers of Jews and Muslims across Latin America and the Caribbean to reliably ...

BUENOS AIRES — People across Latin America prayed for Pope Francis, the first leader of the Catholic Church to come from the region, as the Vatican reported on Saturday the Argentina-born ...

Most stories about Pope Francis mention that he made history as the first pontiff from Latin America. In fact, Francis was the first pope in centuries to be born outside Europe.

“There is a lack of representation.” According to the Pew Research Center, more than 425 million Catholics live in Latin America, nearly 40% of the total Catholic population in the world.